The prisoners' dilemma : political economy and punishment in contemporary democracies /

The prisoners' dilemma : political economy and punishment in contemporary democracies /

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Author / Creator:	Lacey, Nicola.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	The Hamlyn lectures ; 2007 Hamlyn lectures ; 2007.
Subject:	Imprisonment. Imprisonment -- Great Britain. Imprisonment -- United States. Imprisonment -- Europe, Western. Criminal justice, Administration of. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain. Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe, Western. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. Criminal justice, Administration of. Imprisonment. Western Europe. Great Britain. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813686

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ISBN:	9780511415227 0511415222 9780511819247 0511819242 9780521899475 0521899478 9780521728294 0521728290
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Over the last two decades, in the wake of increases in recorded crime and a cluster of other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised: both the scale and intensity of punishment and the significance of criminal justice policy as an index of governments' competence have developed in new and worrying ways. Across the Atlantic, we witness the inexorable rise of the US prison population, amid a ratcheting-up of penal severity which seems unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about crime." "But is this inevitable? Nicola Lacey argues that harsh 'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary democracies. Notwithstanding a degree of convergence, 'globalisation' has left many of the key institutional differences between national systems intact, and these help to explain the striking differences in the capacity for penal moderation of otherwise relatively similar societies. Only by understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about the possible options for reform within particular systems."--Jacket
Other form:	Print version: Lacey, Nicola. Prisoners' dilemma. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521899475 0521899478
Standard no.:	9786611751210